Okinawa on Monday vowed to pass on history's lessons in a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of a fierce World ...

Australian Minjee Lee won the Women's PGA Championship on Sunday as Japan's Chisato Iwai finished five shots back in fourth a ...

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Hundreds of people protested Sunday against NATO and military spending and against a possible conflict with Iran, two d ...

A film based on the true story of two Japanese soldiers in World War II who lived hidden in the canopy of a banyan tree on a ...

WAKAYAMA -- "Please enjoy the Expo!" says a volunteer at the ongoing Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai to a foreign visitor. Kenshi ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party suffered a record-low result in Sunday's Tokyo assembly election, ...

In an age where videos are overflowing online and even politics is becoming part of the stream, candidates, parties, content ...

Two people who survived the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing talked about their experiences to university students here on June ...

A sharp warning from voters for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's party in Sunday's Tokyo assembly election has signaled that ...

Mt. Shinmoe on the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu erupted Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

The State Department has doubled the number of emergency evacuation flights it is providing for American citizens wishing to ...